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2020-01-04 Iraq

Badr Organization leader Hadi al-Amri to replace Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis as deputy chief of Popular Mobilization

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File under: Govt of Iran Proxies

#1 "Next!"

Posted by Frank G 2020-01-04 04:54|| 2020-01-04 04:54|| Front Page Top

#2 How come no women or Christians are ever given leadership opportunities? I demand to speak with their Diversity Champion.

Posted by Airandee 2020-01-04 06:44|| 2020-01-04 06:44|| Front Page Top

#3 What's the end result of a game of musical chairs?

Posted by Mercutio 2020-01-04 07:41|| 2020-01-04 07:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Hope we have a handle on their depth chart. Be nice to have #3 targeted as #2 goes down.

Posted by AlanC 2020-01-04 08:21|| 2020-01-04 08:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Reuters, May 7, 2018 (Al-Amri, AKA Amiri): As leader of the Badr Organization, Amiri, a Farsi speaker, was often seen discussing offensives in Iraq with the Guards’ commander of foreign operations, Qassem Soleimani. The numerous photos from the battlefront of Amiri with Soleimani in military fatigues, embracing and looking euphoric after evicting IS fighters, have personalized an old friendship.
Portraits of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei are also a fixture in Badr offices, a reminder of the days when the group was the armed wing of Iraq’s Shia opposition, based in Iran.
Born in the mixed Sunni-Shia province of Diyala east of Baghdad, Amiri fled to Iran in his 20s after studying economics in Baghdad. Sentenced to death by Saddam, Amiri made Iran his second home for more than two decades.

Posted by b 2020-01-04 10:37|| 2020-01-04 10:37|| Front Page Top

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